Mexican Border Quotes

• I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Southern, Campaigns

  Donald Trump's Announcement on Presidential Campaign Launch at the Trump Tower in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2015.

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• When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best...they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.

  Donald Trump

  People, Drug, Borders

  "On Immigration, Conservatives Are Recycling a Slavery-Era Argument" by Ami Fields-Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 9, 2015.

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• The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Country, Two, Borders

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• I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

  Dean Ambrose

  Two, Jail, Borders

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• Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and others warned that the expansion of NATO to the east is going to cause a disaster. I mean, it's like having the Warsaw Pact on the Mexican border. It's inconceivable. And others, senior people warned about this, but policymakers didn't care. Just go ahead.

  Noam Chomsky

  Senior, Mean, Ukraine

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

  Dave Mustaine

  Wall, President, United States

  "Megadeth Frontman Dave Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum" by David Sessions, www.thedailybeast.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Border agents have now been issued air guns that shoot pepper balls at people coming across the Mexican border. Have they thought this through? Is that going to bother people from Mexico? Pepper balls? Don't these people eat jalapenos? Isn't that like firing meatballs at an Italian guy?

  Jay Leno

  Italian, Gun, Air

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• Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

  Gary Shilling

  Wall, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The pope once again ripped - I mean, really ripped - capitalism and Americans' immigration policy at the Mexican border, before he boarded the plane and returned to Italy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Immigration, Borders

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

  Ann Coulter

  Borders, Minorities, Literature

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.132, Crown Forum

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• That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.

  Chris Christie

  Wall, United States, Borders

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Borders, Mexico

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is right on the Russian border. Notice, not the Mexican border, the Russian border. And it's serious. He has made various statements moving towards reducing the tensions, accommodating Russian concerns and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Moving, Borders

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Catholic Church explaining how contraception could be justified. And then he rips into capitalism and the American immigration policies while at the Mexican border before getting on his plane to go back to Italy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rip, Catholic, Church

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Growing Up, School, Gay

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